Note that this build is hard-coded to development mode.
- ### vue.min.js
Same as `vue.js`, but minified AND is hard-coded to production mode (with runtime checks and warnings stripped).
- ### vue.common.js
The full (compiler-included) CommonJS build. This is the build intended to be used with a Node-compatible bundler, e.g. Webpack or Browserify.
The difference between the browser build and the CommonJS build is that the latter preserves the `process.env.NODE_ENV` check for development/production modes (defaults to development mode). This gives you more control over what mode the code should run in:
- When bundling for the browser, you can turn on production mode by using Webpack's [DefinePlugin](https://webpack.github.io/docs/list-of-plugins.html#defineplugin) to replace `process.env.NODE_ENV` with the `"production"` string literal:
``` js
plugins: [
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
'process.env.NODE_ENV': '"production"'
})
]
```
This also allows minifiers to completely drop the warnings inside the conditional blocks. For Browserify, you can use [envify](https://github.com/hughsk/envify) to achieve the same.
This build does not support the `template` option, because it doesn't include the compiler. It is thus 30% lighter than the full build. However, you can still use templates in Single-File `*.vue` components via `vue-loader` or `vueify`, as these tools will pre-compile the templates into render functions for you.
**This is the default build you get from `import Vue from 'vue'` or `var Vue = require('vue')`**. To use the full CommonJS build instead, configure Webpack via the `resolve.alias` option:
``` js
resolve: {
alias: {
vue$: 'vue/dist/vue.common.js'
}
}
```
For Browserify, use the [aliasify](https://github.com/benbria/aliasify) transform.
The runtime-only (compiler-excluded) browser build. You can also include this build with a script tag, but with this build, you will **not** be able to use the `template` option. Hard-coded to development mode.
- ### vue.runtime.min.js
Same as `vue.runtime.js`, but minified AND hard-coded to production mode (with runtime checks and warnings stripped).
